Techmeme: Google says it will shut down Fabric, the mobile app development tool it acquired in 2017 from Twitter, in mid-2019 after it migrates Fabric's users to Firebase (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Airware, a drone startup that has raised $118M from Andreessen Horowitz, Google's GV, Kleiner Perkins, and others, is shutting down — Drone operating system startup Airware today suddenly informed employees it will cease operations immediately despite having raised $118 million from top investors …

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Chromium Blog:

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Brian Barrett / Wired:

How The Weather Channel and The Future Group used the Unreal Engine to create a stunning depiction of Hurricane Florence's storm surge — AT A CERTAIN point, you think you have a good grasp of what to expect from weather graphics. A color-coded map, a five-day forecast with a sassy cloud.

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Katherine Ellen Foley / Quartz:

The FDA cleared the Apple Watch Series 4's heart monitoring abilities based on Apple-backed studies but mandated Apple label the risks of inaccurate readings — When Apple unveiled the new Apple Watch Series 4 yesterday (Sept. 12), the device received a lot of attention for its health-monitoring capabilities.

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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Google says it will shut down Fabric, the mobile app development tool it acquired in 2017 from Twitter, in mid-2019 after it migrates Fabric's users to Firebase — On Apple's iPhone day this week, Google announced it is killing Inbox by Gmail. But that's not the only service …

More: 9to5Google and Slashdot. Tweets: @thekenyeung

Eudora Wang / China Money Network:

Tencent-backed Qutoutiao, a China-based content aggregator, prices its downsized IPO at $7 per share, raising $84M and valuing the company at $2.1B — Chinese content aggregator Qutoutiao Inc, which is backed by the country's technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd, is seeking to raise US$84 million …

Mitch Stoltz / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

EFF and Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School help eliminate “seven dirty words” restriction policy from .US domain name registrations, reinstating fucknazis.us — Jeremy Rubin just wanted to speak out about the rise of white supremacist groups in the U.S. and raise some money to fight against those groups.

More: Cyberlaw Clinic, CircleID, and The Register. Tweets: @eff

Lisa Marie Segarra / Fortune:

Twitch hires its first head of diversity and inclusion from Vimeo, also a new human resources chief and CFO; it now has four women in its seven-person C-suite — Twitch is shaking things up. The Amazon-owned service for streaming video of people playing video games just announced hires …

More: Mashable, TechCrunch, GameDaily.biz, Shacknews, Hollywood Reporter, and Variety. Tweets: @rachymills

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Mercedes-Benz to integrate SoundHound's AI voice assistant in A-Class cars soon; the AI assistant is also coming to Kia and Hyundai cars in 201 — Drivers of new Mercedes-Benz A-Class vehicles will soon be able to talk to their cars. And the cars will respond. Ask the car to turn on the heads-up display or for sports scores.

More: VentureBeat

Josh Ye / Abacus:

Licensing and approval loopholes make games like GTA, banned in China, available for download in the country via Apple's App Store and Steam store — Loopholes in the system and Steam's grey market: A crash course in how games are bought (and sold) in China — If you want to do business in China, you have to play by China's rules.

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Philip Stafford / Financial Times:

Nasdaq to buy Cinnober, a Sweden-based exchange and real-time clearing technology provider, for ~$190M — Nasdaq, the US exchange, has made a $190m bid to buy Cinnober, a Swedish trading technology group, to deepen its push into technology and analytics. — In a statement on Friday Nasdaq …

More: Reuters, Mondo Visione, fnlondon.com, and NASDAQ.com

New York Times:

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is better prepared to fight election interference, catalogs the steps the company has taken to prevent a repeat of 2016 — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg began the year by promising to make Facebook safer from election interference around the world.

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Antonia Woodford / Facebook:

Facebook expands fact-checking efforts to photos and videos, targeting those that are manipulated, out of context, or presented with false audio or text

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